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This and That, Then and Now

Arizona lawmakers want to force police to auction off seized handguns. Fine. Just put them into a ‘handy gun holder’: pour concrete into a form to make one of those one square yard ‘ecology blcoks’ that are used for retaining walls and other construction. When the box is half-full of wet concrete, toss in the gun and fill to the top. Very safe sale of any handgun.

Note to Maria Cantwell or even Ed Murphy: if you want to pass meaningful gun control laws, there is a way to beat the National Rifle Association (NRA). Introduce legislation to OK the sale of bazoookas, fifty caliber machine guns, tommyguns and howitzers. Throw in hand grenades. Add a program to ship guns to violent felons who have served their sentence. Bring these laws up for a vote. Everyone votes against them. Then, bring up the ‘real’ gun control laws. Lawmakers, worried about their standing with NRA voters, can point to everyone who voted against the ‘bad’ laws. In the confusion, they will skate. If you are very lucky, some of the NRA fringe will publicly argue for the bazookas, exposing them for the crazies they are.

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The CIA asked the State of Washington for two hundred plus fake driver’s licenses. Other law enforcement asked for another three hundred. Someone said that the law enforcement needed the bogus cards for ‘undercover work’.

Trust me: drug dealers never ask for ID. Most criminals–except for banks–don’t check ID’s. “Before I sell you this meth, I need to see two forms of photo ID and an in-state credit card with your signature….”

Are there really two hundred CIA operatives in the state? I had my suspicions about the lady down the block, but it turned out she actually just likes cats. But seriously people. Trust me, these clowns are handing out fake ID’s like candy or even selling them. There simply isn’t a need to issue five hundred erstatz bona fides. Someone in the Governor’s office ought to call in all the players and put a stop to this.

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I was going to mock the State of Texas for allowing an enormous fertilizer plant within blocks of homes, streets and people. But then, I got to thinking of what we got right here in the Pacific Northwest.

We used to have a cholrine plant in downtown Bellingham. (I don’t know if it is still there or whether it was shutdown with the Georgia-Pacific plant.) That was why the waterfront was lit up like a supermodel shoot all night: security for the chorline plant (you didn’t really think that they were guarding the logs, did you?).

Everett lets the Boeing folks line up the jets on the tarmac like sitting ducks. Anyone stealing a gasoline tank truck could drive through the cyclone fence and torch about a billion dollars’ worth of planes, not to mention a few people. (I am not revealing anything here that someone with a smattering of sense can see.)

Even here in Seattle, the FHA allows Boeing Field to be the site of lots of people’s first flight in a small plane. Learning to fly should only happen in semi-rural, isolated fields like Snohomish. There have been a few accidents with beginers–mostly helicopters. There will be more. There should be ‘none’.

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